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Verdict Acninst tho District.

Margaret and Katharine IIarrigan in August,
1881, entered suit against the District of Column
bia, claiming 5000 damages for injury done
their property on New Hampshire avenue in
consequence of defective sewerage IN the
verdict for $500.
National Republican., 1887-02-11
Department Changes.

CAcal changes have been made in the In.
terror Department as follows: Pension Olice-
Appointment, John NJ. Magee, OF Indiana,
special examiner at 81 100. General land
oillce- Promotion, Oscar FOote, of Indiana,
clerk, 81, 200 to sl,l 400.
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Placques.

Papier Mache, made up to represent
China, on which are $50 called) paintings Of
country scenes, figures, &c. You buy a
pretty ornament for 4c when you secur.
one Of these Placques.
National Republican., 1887-02-11
Arrosted in New York.

Clarence OBrien forfeited his bonds yeslor-
day in the police court. Police headquarters
received information of his arres, In New York
yesterday for crime committed there.
O'Bren Is wanted here for setting up gaming
table.
National Republican., 1887-02-11
MnsIonl nnd Literary Entertainme emit

The Jefferson Literary Society OF South Wash.
ginton has arranged for musical and literary
entertainment to night at the Jefferson school
hall 1t is TO be given for the benefit OF the
has willingly consented 20 take part In the pro.
National Republican., 1887-02-11
Solid SllyerWare.

Solid silver teaspoons. one-half dozen, si.5
solid silver sugar spoons, hand engraved, 1850
solid silver butter knives, hand engraved
81 90; solid silver napkin rings, 81 and 81
Large line suitable for wedding presents. Il
HARRIS tS Co, 13l Seventh street,
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Trash.

A lot Of Imitation Brass and Silver Cam
dlesticks, with and without glass pendants,
for d9c each. They look all right at dis
tance, but close inspection shows them to
be trash. Why not buy one, and put IL
where 1t may be seen, but not touched.
National Republican., 1887-02-11
Still More Frames.

The prices are II, 12l, 15, 17c. That will
condemn them. But listen. They are
stamped out of brass, in representation OF
the costly and old.fashioned solid brass
frames. They look just like them. They
are beautiful. A bold claim for an lie
frame, and we know you won't laugh at our
assertion when you see them. They are for
photographs.
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r. H. TAYLOR,
9y3 Pennsylvania Avenue.
NOVELTIES In WASH FABRICS,
sEAToN PERRY.
tsuccrsyoR TO PERRY & BRoTHERh

THE --LATEST INPoRTATIoNs, IL MEN, EN-
ppoinEi,FD NULL AND BATlSrE ROBES
ARE NoW OPEN, AND RANGE IN PklCE
ff2Sw NLw u irlMHpkolDERED lH SWISS MrsLIN'
AN1 NN0IiITiEs fiisTTEs Is ANDERsoNs SCOTCH
ZSEiS2 Yfw NiIA INDIA cRINKLEs AND SEER
sISMSMhfGNS I1SMSMfNsE STOCK OF THE FINEST DUAL;
ITY or PLAIN AND FANCY 80, tREEGH ~
sATEENS, IN CONFINED STYLES MADE bn
10 MY ENPREss ORDER BY GROSS Ro'
mo NN66vEkfiEs i Ini IN BRITISH AND FRENCH
WEN "EEW + INDIA fSIIA'i LINENS, from 12>f to SOC:
PERSIAN LAWNS, PRINCESS LAWSS.
FRENCH AND ENGL!SH SAI,HHSSSSoho' ,a,,HSS
MAsHLiA, FIGURED AND CORDED
rl9HHlEoss; 59Hl os1NG PRICES on. ALL WINTER
WRAPS AND CONDENSATION SUITS;
suPERB STOCK OF n,lcH hn9Ms ESsr fARhhe RIA.
FkAESAsIIjTR bR MEs ssIIjTRAHs, hND GRos GRAIN SILKS.
IN IN BLACK. WHITE, AND ALL CoLoRS' AT
LqTEESSiih TI TEESihST iFi1RiD GOLD AND SILVER BRO
CADED SATINS AND BEADED, TELNElS'
FOR DRESS FRoNsINS6 N6 ASpo AsSioRh6 RA6EhIK silK VEL.
yFTS, from 81 to IS per yard. ,,s,o>,s
NOVELTIES IN SILK GAUZES, ILLUSIONS,
CRFpES. AND BRUSSELS NETS. ,,r, ,,,,
ssSSPECIAL APARTMENTS FOK ,,1IS, Dis
PLAYING EVENING GOODS BY GAsLlGlL.
ss-PLAIN FIGURES A AND COX REoT
Established 1910,
sEAToN PERRY.
PERRY BUILDIN
pENNsYLyANIA AVENUE. CORNER 9TH 81
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JUMPED from car and spralned my ankle.
Salvation Oil, the great pain -extiuguisher,
cured 1t in three days 1t is now as well as
National Republican., 1887-02-11

A WORK Of aIt-the Old and the New World
at KCTnGn's, Cheap prices,
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Excellent "Remnant" bar
gains in Ladies' Underwear,
Cloves, Hosiery, Corsets,
Curtains, and Handkerchiefs;
short lengths in Dress
Goods, Black Goods, Vel
vets, Linens, Ginghams,
Prints, Percales, Seersuckers,
Satteens, &c.
If you have not done so, it
will pay you to read the
itemized list of attractions
published in last evenings
Star"
National Republican., 1887-02-11
OLD CROW wHsRy-Rracmer's, ISL 7th st.
Handsome Fire Proof building.

The National Safe Deposit Company vii
commence at once to erect large aud hand
some flrcproOf building on the corner of New
York avenue and Fifteenth street which vii
cost about $4,000. 1t will be five stories high
and front Go feet on New York avenue ant
along Fifteenth street distance of 150 feet
From the ground to the caves 1t will be 96 feet
and the building will be constructed of ston,
and brick, and in the best style of architecture
National Republican., 1887-02-11
A Lot Of Trash
At&ttkAttNtthAAttt

The wreck Of manufacturers stock lot of Odds and
Ends, bought for next to nothing and will be
sold for song.
National Republican., 1887-02-11
MEN'S UNDERWEAR.
IL garments to be closed
out to-day at greatly reduced
prices. You secure a bargain
if we have your size.

] Shirt sIze 3 H., was S34oi to-day ioo'
red, size AZ in., was Sl2j; to day 75c.
G Shirts, red, sizes 81 and Sc, were $3.50; to-
pair Drawers size 4. In, were C2ISc; to-day
i pair Drawers, size 40 in., were O2IGc to-day
Sjc.
i ralr Drawers, size 40 in.. were ST. to-day
roc.
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ROWLAND DENTAL ASSOCIATION, -2l1 Four
and-a-half street northwest, three doors north
of Pennsylvania avenue. Il. p. Rowland, NJ.
D., G. II. Rowland, d. d. s., surgical, operative,
and mechanical dentists. Extractions, under
nitrous oxide, so cents each tooth, and only so
Cents,cxtra for gas, whether one or a number
of teeth are extracted at the same sitting
Have administered nitrous oxide to over 45, ,00s
persons. Artificial teeth 81 per set. Gold,
best manner. All work warranted first class.
"ALDERNEY DAIRY WAGONS" Fresh Alder
ney Butter churned every morning aud deliv-
cred in q pound "Ward' prints, AT i5 cents per
pound. Also cottage cheese, g cents per ball;
buttermilk, cents per quart, and sweet milk
at cents per quart.
BERKELEY, a pure rye whisky, the best on
the market for the price, 81 per gallon, 81 a
quart, and so cents a pint, % cents sample
bottle. Tharp. SIS F street northwest.
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building Permits,

~ LOVE thee, ease, and only thee" We'll,
the only way to obtain 1t is to buy Salvation Oil.
05 Cpntg
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GUY ITEMS.

CHEMICAL tests show there are no nauseous
narcotics in Red Star Cough Cure.
National Republican., 1887-02-11
Robberies Reported.

IS per gallon, 20 cents quart bottle. No.
Rye Whisky, best in the world for the money,
at MCGee's, Ninth street. near D.
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The Grocers, Association.

BANANA peel - fell on sidewalk - peopi
laugh. 81. Jacobs OIL heals pain.
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suppose tainted then, for when

I IsupposeI tainted then. for when !
was again conscious, two days after, I
was in my bed at Kralholm, with Elsa
bending over me. She had found me on
that fatal evening, lying drowned, as she
then thought, on the beach, whittier she
had gone to meet us all. AS the weather
had been perfect all day, every one sup
posed that Elias and his family had fol
some reason remained over at Ranen, and
that I, returning alone in some small
boat in order to be with Elsa-for oul
courtship was secret-had through some
accident, fallen overheard.
When 1 told the dreadful truth they
did not believe me. When on inquiry
they learned that we had sailed from
Ranen, as I had said, when nothing more
was heard of Elias, when the wreck Of
the new ten cared boast was cast ashore
on the rocks of Landspoint Island and all
could see that she had no cross tarred
upon her stern, they were convinced
and proper funeral services were held for
the drowned.
Elsa and I were married. Elias's
savings made us rich. We bought thi:
farm, and neither of us has ever been il
boat since, nor ever will be.-Fron
"IMrs. HephaestuS."
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Qneer Things in Persia.

Mr.. Neesan lectured in New York
not long ago On Persian life. The young
ladies of the audience laughed when MIR.
Neesan told how the Persian youth was
allowed to take one kiss from his future
wife on the eve before their marriage,
provided he could find her in dark
room full of other ladies. They were
silent and sympathetic when he told
how, although he was engaged for three
wears, he never got one kiss in all that
time. Mr.. Neesan was forced to confess
that the Persian newspapers are rather
slow. They are divided into two classes
those published every week and those
published every seventh day-and all
Persia has just one of each class. Some
time after Cleveland was elected MIR.
Neesan received a copy of some OF these
papers. He looked anxiously to see II
the election returns had reached the
cnterprising editor, but the only mention
he found of America was its discovery by
one Christopher Columbus. He doesn't
expect to live long enough for the editor
to 90 through the subsequent history OF
America and give his readers some COM
paratively recent news concerning tho
United States.
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Fertility Of Soil.

Writing on this subject to the Massa-
chusetts PlOughman, correspondent
says: 'It is to be remembered that soil
is made of dissolved rock. And this
rock is found to contain all the mineral
elements required by vegetation, the diff
ference in the natural fertility of soils
being the difference of the rock of which
the soil is formed. This being so, it is
evident that the earth will continue to
furnish the mineral constituents of vege-
tation while soil or rock remains.
"Thc other ingredients of vegetation,
oxygen, hydrogen and nitrogen, are fur
nished. the two first from air and water,
the other, nitrogen, in way that seems
at present to be not fully understood. 1t
is generally agreed that plants do not
receive their nitrogen directly from the
air. therefore indirectly from air us Il
primary source, in what way we may not
fully understand.
"Air is composed of oxygen and
nitrogen, the nitrogen in greatest pro
portion. 1t is known that oxygen is
readily communicated TO other substances,
and is largely drawn upon in COM
bustion. AS the composition of the air is
never known to vary, and as large guam
titles of nitrogen are continually being
discharged into the air, it is evident
that nitrogen must also be COM
municated, the surplus quantities being
constantly thrown off to unite with other
substances. With what substances nitro
gen is thus combined may be inferred
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Domestication Of the Elk.

In a letter to the New-York Herald ad-
vocating the domestication OF the fast
disappearing elk. T. D. Kellogg says;
Male elks have been domesticated and
employed for light team service. They
have the credit of having been used with
success in this capacity. As to their
availability for the purpose ! am not fully
a Judge. They certainly do not lack in
docility; the cost of keeping such team
must be almost nothing, and for run
ming around with light conveyance on
short Journeys l feel confident that if the
animal is domesticated it will, on account
of the exceedingly small expense in
volvcd in keeping such team, come into
very general use for the purpose.
However this may be, we have not to
60 outside the food question to deter
mine the fact that the elk, in domestica-
ton. will be not only one of the most
useful, but probably the most useful OF
all our meat-producing animals. Beef
cannot excel it in nutrition; it is not uni
formly so tender and juicy and so suita-
bic an article of diet as this; it is not SO
digestible nor we'll fitted for constant
Use
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Visit to q Cuban Sugar Plantation.

After few moments converse, by the
invitation of Senor Roderiquez, we arose
and followed him over the plantation.
That seasons crop had all been harvested
and sent away, and the huge crusher,
mammoth tanks and the powerful engine
were lying idle, but outside Of the build
ings in which the machinery was placed,
the work of planting was going on quite
briskly. A string of miniature carts,
each drawn by single bullock which
was driven by a negro, backed up in turn
to a large pile of matasse (which is the re-
fuse of the cane after it has passed
through the crusher) and after loading
about as much as a good strong white
man could carry on the tines of pith-
fork, dragged it lazily off to where other
negroes were scraping out long drills in
the rich, mellow soil. In these trenches
the drivers of the carts sprinkled their
load and returned for more. This matasse
forms excellent manure, and is very
strengthening to the land. In one corner
of the field, and under the shade of
guava tree, were seated several old
men and young boys with
large pile of cane stalks beside them,
which they were busily engaged. in strip
ping off their leaves and cutting in halves
the lower part of the stalks to be crushed
and the juice made into sugar for home
consumption, while the top with its ten
der shoots sprouting out at each joint or
about six inches apart, was for seed.
Sugar cane grows from its sprouts or
stalks and not from kernel of grain as
does our corn, which it slightly resembles
when springing up from the ground. As
we passed about among the workmen,
several of them on seeing the proprietor
and knowing him to be the man of
money, could not resist the temptations
of stopping their work and asking for
their wages. Dropping their hoes or
halting their bullocks, they ran to the
overseer for an order, and back to the
planter, who was obliged to pause and
settle. Some of them, however, on get
ting their money instantly returned to
the overseer and reported themselves for
duty. They seemed to be anxious to get
the money into their possession, appear.
ing to think that the master might make
a trip away from home and they be
obliged to wait till morning for their
pay; at any rate they felt safer to have it
in their own pockets. 1t was great
bother, but the planter was helpless and
was obliged to make the best of it,
Boston Courier.
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A Hideous Beast.

1t is a melancholy fact, but none tn,
less true, that the walrus is one of the
most disgusting looking objects known
to man. 1t has raw, naked hide, with.
out hair or fur, covered with multitude
of pustular-looking warts, boils, and
pimples, the skin wrinkled in deep:
flabby folds, and marked by dark venous
lines, which show clearly through the
yellowish brown cuticle which seems te
be peeling off with leprosy, altogether .
most unwholesome-looking brute, un,
pleasantly suggesting the appearances we
know as ''bloated."
They are of tremendous size, ten feet
and half to twelve feet long, and weigh
ing fifteen or sixteen hundred pounds.
In water their motions are not nearly SC
quiet or graceful as those of the seal and
sea lion, and on land they are almost
helpless, for which reason they rarely
come outside the surf-wash. They &c
about in large herds, which now and then
emerge to sleep. First one lands and
lays itself out, and then second comes
and gives its predecessor shove, where.
upon he moves little further up; then
comes number three, who pokes up num-
Der two, who prods number one, and so
on till the whole herd has got to land,
each brute pillowed on the body of of the
one above him, all without quarreling,
but every movement displaying apathy
and phlegm. Its most extraordinary
feature is its hide, which over the shoul,
ders and down the throat and chest is
three inches thick, and is nowhere less
than half an inch.
1t feeds exclusively on she'll fish and
the dubious roots and tender stalks OF
certain marine plants, which grow abund.
antly at the bottom of the bays and
lagoons of the Alaska coast; and it is evil
dently for digging up these that it uses
its tuoks and not, as is reported, for the
purpose of hauling itself upon ice or rock.
Another blow to received opinion is given
by Mr.. Elliot's testimony as to the cow.
ardice of the brutes. They will snort OF
blow to any extent in the water, but as
to attacking boat, that is the very last
thing that would enter into their heads.
It is unfortunate that no females were to
be found about the islands. The natives
say that the creature is homogeneous;
that the female brings forth single CALI
in June, usually on the ice foes north OF
Behring's Straits: that it resembles its
parents in general character when six
weeks old, but that its tusks do not ap.
pear till the second year; and that the
mother is strongly attached to it and
nurses it in the sea.-Au the Year Round.
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Harvesting Castor Beans.

The beans are produ :ed in small prickly
pods or capsules, which are borne in
pyramidal spikes or clusters. Ripening
Is indicated by the turning brown of the
pods, which soon burst open and scatter
the seeds. As soon as the pods ct the
base of cluster begin to turn brown, the
cluster must be harvested. The stem of
the spike or cluster is cut with a sharp
knife, and the cluster thrown into cart
on which barn sheet or other cloth is
spread to save the beans that shell out.
Many growers prefer to use sled in
harvesting; a sled is made with plank
runners, large enough to hold two large
drygoods boxes. A single horse draws
this along the lanes, and the clusters are
thrown into the boxes. When the boxes
are filed they are taken to the popping
yard" A piece of hard ground, say q
hundred feet square, is burned over,
swept and rolled to get hard surface,
and surrounded by board fence. The
clusters are placed in the center of this.
After two days the spikes must be turned,
using rakes for the purpose. At the end
Of four or five days the beans will have
popped out, when the refuse is removed.
The beans are swept up, to be cleaned by
a flaming mill, and another lot of clusters
brought in.-American Agraculurist.
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Seals That Have Nightmare.

The sleep of the furscal seen on land
is always accompanied by an involuntary,
nervous, muscular twitching and slight
shifting of the fippers, all of which may
be 81 igns, as it were, of their simply hav-
ing nightmare, or of sporting, ina Wis
ionary way, in soure far-off drcamland
sea.
l have studied hundreds of such SOM
nolent examples. Stealing softly up so
close that I could lay my hand upon them
from the point where l was sitting and
watching the sleeping seals, l have al
ways found their sleep to be OF this ner-
vous description.
The respiration is short and rapid, but
with no sound of breathing, unless the
car is brought very closc.-Oar Arctic
Prouince.
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AGRICULTURAL.
TOPICS OF INTEREST RELATIVE
TO FARM AND GARDEN.
Scabby Potatoes.

No farmer likes to plant scabby pota-
toes, because of the danger that the fun
gus will reproduce itself in new crop,
but some who have tried it report crops
of bright, clean potatoes from scabby
seed. This has satisfied them that worms,
insects or some other cause than fungus
produces the scabby appearance. But if
potatoes are properly kept during the
winter the fungus growth may die out
and become incapable of propagation.
The success with shabby potato seed may
be due to the fact that the scab entirely
destroys some eyes, leaving those which
remain to use the entire substance of the
potato. This suggests that it is undoubt-
edly good plan to dig out all but two
or three vigorous eyes before planting
the seed. 1t requires more potatoes to
plant an acre by this method, but the in
creased crop more than warrants the ex-
ira pensc.-CuLtivation.
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Permanent Seeding for Pasture.

Considerable attention is now given to
the permanent seeding of meadows and
pastures. These are indispensable to a
complete system OF agriculture, and while
heretofore American farmers have got
along very we'll with the short-lived
timothy and clover, the time has come
when more economical method is de-
sirablc, if not necessary. There will al
ways be necessity for temporary "grass"
for hay, and the common mixture of
timothy and clover and clover alone,
will always find place in OUR farm
practice. But for permanent pastures we
need to study the various grasses and their
adaptation for our climate and soil. AS
a rule, the deeper fibrous-rooted and
stoloniferous varieties are the best for
permanent seeding, but there are some
kinds which are especially adapted for
this purpose. Orchard grass is an excel
lent variety, and meadow fescue is per-
haps still better. Both continue in the
soil for many years and make the best of
hay.-NeU York Times.
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Duck Raising.

1t is an open question whether it will
pay to raise ducks on most farms or not
the careful housewife, whose pin money
is derived from this and similar sources,
says yes, while the husband or manager
of the farm, in nine cases out of ten, says
no, and we are inclined to think he is
correct-but on the other hand there are
many cases where they may be raised
with profit, and reasonably large pro-
fit. If the farm is located near a large
city, and regular trips are made to the
market, it will pay to raise them until
nine or ten weeks old, and put them on
the market at that age, but under or
dinary circumstances they must be sold
at that age, as they are 50 rapacisus
feeders that they will eat their heads off,
30 to speak, if fed on meal and grain un-
til Christmas; but on the other hand, if
the farm has piece of waste ground in
the form of marsh or miry place, where
they can forage for themselves
after that age, and not be q
source Of destruction to growing
crops, they may be kept until autumn
with reasonable profit. While ducks are
foud of water, for the water itself is not
positive necessity to their we'll being,
the chief reason why they like water is
the vast amount of animal food they get
from that SOURCE this is why they prefer
a dirty pond or narshy place to a clean
spring efeeR It affords greater quaint
ties Of shails, slugs and worms. But to
raise dgeks on meal ard grain until art-
tufnn, they will be a bill Of expense H.
stead Of source Of profit, and where they
are allowed to get into the growing crops
or garden, they will in short time de-
stroy more than they are worth, as their
feet seem peculiarly formed for that pur
pose, while their bills are equally we'll
formed for devouring any grain and sue
oulent leaf that may be within their
reach.
The Pekin is probably the best for all
purposes, being quite hardy and prolific,
yielding a goodly quantity of feathers,
and when killed are of fine flavor and
good size. There are several varieties OF
smaller ducks, but these are in most cases
more ornamental than profitable, some of
them being of gorgeous hues.-Farmers
Adrocate..
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from observation. The formation of nj
trate of potash and nitrate of soda are fa
miliar examples. It is also known that
saltpetre is formed arti6cially by mixing
ingredients to attract the nitrogen from
the atmosphere. These facts go to show
that the supply of nitrogen required by
cultivation is assured, requiring only the
hand of man tosupply the deficiency that
the growing of crops has created. And
though a deficiency of nearly all the ele-
ments of nutrition will be occurring, it is
encouraging to know that by intelligence
and industry it may always be supplied,
and the earth rendered perennial in the
production of food for man."
The provisions of nature in every direc-
tion are evidently such, that with reason
able care and seasonable labor, mankind
can enjoy her fruits to the full.